Going Blind
Going Blind - meaning Summary
Approaching Loss and Transcendence
The speaker watches a woman at a social gathering whose small, unusual gestures draw close attention. Her smile is fragile, her eyes catch light like a pool, and she moves slowly as if faced with an invisible obstacle. The scene registers both vulnerability and a strange uplift: the prospect of an ending or change that might free her from ordinary movement. The poem compresses uncertainty about sight and motion.
Read Complete AnalysesShe sat just like the others at the table. But on second glance, she seemed to hold her cup a little differently as she picked it up. She smiled once. It was almost painful. And when they finished and it was time to stand and slowly, as chance selected them, they left and moved through many rooms (they talked and laughed), I saw her. She was moving far behind the others, absorbed, like someone who will soon have to sing before a large assembly; upon her eyes, which were radiant with joy, light played as on the surface of a pool. She followed slowly, taking a long time, as though there were some obstacle in the way; and yet: as though, once it was overcome, she would be beyond all walking, and would fly.
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